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A magistrate has ordered eight girls from Pakistan flown into the country as cultural dancers be kept in a safe house to enable police establish whether they are victims of human trafficking.

Senior principal magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot sitting at the Milimani law courts gave the order after being furnished with special permits issued to the eight foreign girls by the Cabinet Secretary Sports , Culture and Heritage Mr Rashid Echesa Mohammed.

Defence lawyer Evans Ondieki told Mr Cheruiyot that the eight girls who were arrested at Balle Balle Club in Parklands “ are in the country legally with full permission of CS Echesa.”

The eight Pakistani dancers who are suspected to be victims of human trafficking. PHOTO | RICHARD MUNGUTI

Defence lawyer Evans Ondieki told Mr Cheruiyot that the eight girls, who were arrested at Balle Balle Club at Parklands on January 1, “are in the country legally with the full permission of CS Echesa”.

Mr Ondieki said the cultural dancers were allowed to enter into the country by Mr Echesa to promote trans-national cultures.

The lawyer pleaded with the magistrate to release the girls to be detained in a safe house where police can access them whenever they want as they investigate the owner of the club, who flew them into Kenya.

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